Cultural and Conventional Center, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Scholarship / Financial aid: none
Date: 11th to 13th June 2008
Deadline: March 17, 2008
Open to: all interested
Announcement follows:
Over the last few decades, economic analysis of security issues has been crucial for the public policy makers, with billions of dollars being spent on security related products and services each year and crucial peace making and keeping actions also playing an important role in
European policy making. With the integration and the enlargement of the European Union, questions regarding the common understanding of economics of security have to be critically reconsidered, both theoretically and empirically.
Offers of papers regarding these issues are invited for this conference sponsored by Economists for Peace and Security, Middle East Technical University, Turkish Scientific and Research Council (TЬBTAK), and the University of the West of England.
The principal aim of this conference is to seek answers to the research questions: What roles do economists play in achieving peace and security and how can they contribute to
developing an effective security policy? What are the impacts of security policies on different approaches to innovation, technology, and ethical aspects of government policy? How can these important issues be handled in a common Europe? It will take a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, bringing together academics from security, science and technology studies as well as policy makers at European and national levels.
Proposed topics include:
• European Security
• Economics of the RMA
• Globalisation and the restructuring of the MIC
• Militarism and Development
• Economics of conflict and post-conflict reconstruction
• Economics of the arms trade
• Procurement and offsets
• Arms races, offsets and alliances
• Peace science
• Conversion and Demilitarisation
• Terrorism
Offers of papers on other related topics are also welcomed.
For further details please visit http://www.stps.metu.edu.tr/
